Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1313
Title	Byzantine Borders, IV: Byzantium, Post-Colonialism, and the Making of Modern Borders
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Organiser	Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair	Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Paper 1313-a	Mirror of Our Dreams: The Implicit Indian Ocean in Byzantine Historiography (Language: English) Rebecca Darley, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Historiography - Medieval; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Social History
Paper 1313-b	Byzantine Borders and British Desires: The Creation of the Negev 'Frontier' (Language: English) Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Social History
Paper 1313-c	'Our bold warrior King Richard': Richard I and the Limits of Imperialism on British Cyprus (Language: English) Antonios Savva, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	In the final session on Byzantine borders, speakers focus directly on a theme that has run through the preceding three sessions: the impact of historiography on modern belief. All look at how the past has been re-imagined, reconstructed and, sometimes, invented to lead, inexorably, to modern conceptions of space and boundaries.